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roeygol
roeygol

Reputation: 5048

My date in being transformed to UTC?

I got this function below which helps me to change a date format from one to another:

def change_time_format(self, date_string, input_format, output_format):

    if date_string == None:
        return None

    try:
        date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, input_format)
        timestamp = calendar.timegm(date.timetuple())
        new_formatted_date = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp).strftime(output_format)
        return new_formatted_date
    except Exception as E:
        print E
        return None

And when i'm calling it like this:

dtu.change_time_format('2017-01-01 12:34:56', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', '%d%m%Y %H%M%S')

I'm getting the input as:'01012017 153456' which is wrong and needs to be: '01012017 123456', there is a difference of 3 hours for some reason.

I can't find how to fix it, I searched for several ways over the web and I couldn't find nothing.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 35

Answers (1)

Arya McCarthy
Arya McCarthy

Reputation: 8814

From here: 

return datetime.datetime.strptime(date_string, input_format).strftime(output_format)

Upvotes: 1

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